Making Urban Policy Useful and Corrigible
In: Urban affairs quarterly, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 379-397
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In: Urban affairs quarterly, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 379-397
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 803-805
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Band 63, Heft 4, S. 189-191
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: National civic review: publ. by the National Municipal League, Band 63, S. 189-191
ISSN: 0027-9013
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 33, Heft 6, S. 543
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 33, S. 543-552
ISSN: 0033-3352
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 347
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: American political science review, Band 66, Heft 2, S. 618-620
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 57
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 388, Heft 1, S. 35-45
ISSN: 1552-3349
Political science has been largely absorbed in aimless institutional description, rather than in the attempt to explain humanly significant change. Unlike economics—war and revolution apart—it has no phenomena of the order of the business cycle, inflation, growth rates, and the like, of demonstrable human consequence, of which it seeks to give theoretical comprehension, and to develop intervention strategies from this comprehension. Without explanatory theory, it has no occasion to develop indicators except as the implicit theory of common sense suggests the value of such indicators. For the most part, such indicators as we have were developed as predictors and are without explanatory value. This state of affairs is now in the process of alteration. The reports of the Kerner and Eisenhower Commissions, however unsatisfactory, provide scenarios of significant social change, with partially explicated theory to account for it, and with some specification of the relevant variables. The movement of these variables suggest theoretically significant indicators whose values could predict significant change. Fruitful development can be expected as our capacity for evaluation highlights humanly important phenomena whose explanation will suggest the indicators necessary for the use of that capacity.
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 29, Heft 5, S. 442
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 185-188
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 115
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 70, Heft 4, S. 482-483
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 1-6
ISSN: 1537-5390